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How Madonna's ex Jean-Michel Basquiat became an art hero — with a single painting fetching £85.4m 29 years after his death | The Sun
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Anthony Mugabe - Portrait of Jean-Michel Basquiat and Madonna, by Maripol (1982). Basquiat and Madonna dated in 1982/1983. Maripol knew them both independent of their relationship with one another. She knew Madonna
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